THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR VET

There are moments in life, when we do not believe any more in the Humanity, in what there is HUMAN BEING to the animal kingdom. I discover every day the cruelty of the people to animals, whether it is by means of the statements of the association L214, or comments on LinkedIn or Twitter.

And then, one miraculous day, we discover this extraordinary chap, Noel Fitzpatrick, incredible avant-gardist veterinarian, who uses innovative technologies never used until now, to look after his small patients.

This man is brilliant, and for several reasons:

- First of all he is an Irish man (and then?), what a beautiful country where Ireland! He either is not bad at all …

- Then when he receives masters of his patients, he always takes care of shaking hands with them, of asking them for their first name, and invites them to sit down. Few veterinarians do so today, it is called the respect and the consideration of the person. He takes care of the distress of masters of these animals which are all their life, sometimes these people go out themselves of a difficult convalescence and were connected with their animal to be able to recover from their troubles. So by looking after the animal, Noel also looks after the distress of people.

- During the diagnosis, he never lies: he never embellishes the picture by letting hope no for anything on the outcome of the treatment, he makes a report, then proposes several solutions, among which the amputation of so necessary member can be. He is factual, and right.

- He is innovative in the sense that he proposes remedies never made before. He dares new things, knowing full well what he does. The innovation lies in the fact that he can call on bio-engineers to make custom prostheses that are computer-made using a 3D member scanner and then directly additive manufactured in 3D, so for a relatively low cost Or within reach of its clients, fast and extremely accurate in their shape and adaptability to the anatomy of each animal (piece of skull removed following an osteoblastoma, or an orthopedic prosthesis connecting two pieces of a broken bone, etc ... ). He also uses the stem cells of the patient itself to reinject them to the place where the bone is to regenerate, in order to increase the chances of recovery by decreasing the risk of rejection.

- He knows what he does every step of the operation, he has everything in mind precisely, and if ever during surgery things do not go as planned, he adapts and finds "in live "an alternative solution to save the animal in the best way, so that it can live normally, without suffering, and for many more years with its masters.

- He takes videos before and after his intervention, so he can follow the evolution of the work done, and improve for the following times, because he wants to guarantee to the animal the return to a normal life and without pain.

- He dedicates his life to his profession: he receives his consultations during the day, and he operates in the evening sometimes until more than midnight. He gives all he has, his gifts, his humanity, his genius, to the service of the animal cause. He is simply brilliant. I love him so much.

And I wanted to pay tribute to him today.

Do you know veterinarians doing the same thing in France or elsewhere? If so, tell me.